Marc Ruxin

CEO

Marc Ruxin

Marc is the founder and CEO of TastemakerX, a social game for music discovery. The platform allows users to express tastes and preferences by building virtual collections of the artists they love, and connect with like-minded music fans. TastemakerX launched in June 2012 and has become the one of the first platforms to leverage a game mechanic to surface real time musical trends. Available on iOS and the web, TastemakerX is free to join, and will be rolling out new platforms like Spotify, Android and Facebook in 2013.

Prior to founding TastemakerX, Marc was the Chief Innovation Officer at UniversalMcCann and McCannErikson. Prior to this Marc was chief operating officer of The Mill Group and Beam.tv, VP of business development at iVast, and Eveo, inc. Marc also worked for WPP Group, as an MBA Marketing Fellow and started his career in A&R at EMI Records.

Marc sits on the Boards and Advisory Boards of numerous internet and technology start-ups and is on the BoD of the San Francisco Film Society. Marc has a BA from Hamilton College and an MBA from Columbia Business School, and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children. Marc blogs about music and film at www.snoozebutton.com and the Huffington Post.